[119853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Owen)
Thu Dec 3 01:54:25 2009
From: Chris Owen <owenc@hubris.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091203064258.22870.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:53:26 -0600
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:42 AM, John Levine wrote:
> I also agree that any domain with live users (as opposed to mail
> cannons sending ads or transaction confirmations) is likely to
> experience pain with -all from all the overenthusiastic little MTAs
> whose managers imagine that "stopping forgery" will lessen their spam
> load rather than losing mail from roaming users.
Again I guess I don't understand. How are these MTA managers being =
"overenthusiastic"?
Publishing a SPF (with -all) is essentially me requesting that they =
reject any mail from my domain not coming from one of the approved =
hosts. I'm the one making the decision to ask them to bounce such =
mail. Seems to me they are only being responsible in actually =
enforcing a policy that I set for the domain.
Chris
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